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New book re-opens Turin Shroud debate

By T.K. Randall
March 28, 2013 · Comment icon 40 comments

Image Credit: Giovanni Battista
A new book based on extensive research claims that the famous shroud is not a medieval forgery.
The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth bearing the imprint of what many believe to be Jesus himself, it was said to have been used to bury his body after his crucifixion 2,000 years ago. Numerous studies have attempted to determine the authenticity of the shroud, with the most widely accepted analysis suggesting that it is was a forgery produced in medieval times.

In a new book entitled "The Mystery of the Shroud", professor Giulio Fanti has used the latest scientific analysis techniques to decide once and for all when the shroud was made. Controversially, the results seem to suggest the shroud dates back to within a few centuries of the time of Jesus, a strong indication that it is actually genuine.
Many Catholics believe that the 14ft-long linen cloth, which bears the imprint of the face and body of a bearded man, was used to bury Christ's body when he was lifted down from the cross after being crucified 2,000 years ago.


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Comment icon #31 Posted by Atentutankh-pasheri 11 years ago
This shroud is fake. It is desirable to prove it is fake though not essential. What we are dealing with here is the rational versus the irrational, faith versus everybody else. It is not sufficient for believers in medeival nonsense to talk about the bible this and the bible that. Such believers must give proof of these miracles and not expect the rest of us to roll over and submit to their beliefs. The onus to give proof is on the beleivers, not the skeptics, otherwise the world becomes a mad place believing in all manner of nonsense simply because one group of people say it is so and /or the... [More]
Comment icon #32 Posted by docyabut2 11 years ago
Who would have ever thought that this one man Jesus , would have had such a impact on the world, if the accounts of his life and death on the cross were not true in some way.I`m usually a skeptic on things, but the shroud is turely a amazing artifact of his time.
Comment icon #33 Posted by Mr Walker 11 years ago
ANOTHER HUGE PROBLEM!!! The image on the shroud was not made by light or radiation coming from a body. The wounds are visible in blood and in the hazy coloration that makes the image. explain why details such as wounds, veins and any defining feature including hair (which is dead "tissue" even when were alive) would be visible due to radiation. Light when captured on film (and the way it is "printed") comes from a source image and is reflected back to us in a single beam per micro pixel, omnidirectioanl light is thus diffused in the atmosphere and we are left with a clear image on the back of ... [More]
Comment icon #34 Posted by Mr Walker 11 years ago
There are recods aon almost every roman of any importance even if they are mentioned in passing. This Jesus fella, if real. Incited an entire community to kill someone on a holiday and let a murderer go free. You expect me or anyone else to believe no one wrote about him, in a society with one of the highest literacy rates in the world at the time. I fit rather well into my society with my looks but were not a society like ancient Jerusalem. Social standards meant everything, and for a rabbi (jesus was a rabbi, or so he is claimed to be) to have long hair and a big beard would have been unacce... [More]
Comment icon #35 Posted by Paranoid Android 11 years ago
There are recods aon almost every roman of any importance even if they are mentioned in passing. This Jesus fella, if real. Incited an entire community to kill someone on a holiday and let a murderer go free. You expect me or anyone else to believe no one wrote about him, in a society with one of the highest literacy rates in the world at the time. I fit rather well into my society with my looks but were not a society like ancient Jerusalem. Social standards meant everything, and for a rabbi (jesus was a rabbi, or so he is claimed to be) to have long hair and a big beard would have been unacce... [More]
Comment icon #36 Posted by Curley Fryes 11 years ago
It is amazing how many Christians want so desperately to have some idol made of cloth, wood, metal, etc. which has not eyes to see, nor ears to hear, mouth to speak in which to reverence (worship) as though it is God (include crosses also as idols). Christians of today are as pagan and idolatrous as Israel became in the Old Testament. Why would God break His own commandment??? We are told in the 10 commandments that we are not to have an image of Him. Why could He leave an image of Himself and break His own commandment??? Why cling to the logic of man when it contradicts ure???? The Bible says... [More]
Comment icon #37 Posted by Atentutankh-pasheri 11 years ago
The image is supposedly of Jesus, not God. Then there is no trinity, and the Hebrew god does not exist. Just as I thought
Comment icon #38 Posted by Mr Walker 11 years ago
Then there is no trinity, and the Hebrew god does not exist. Just as I thought The problem may be your understanding of the trinity. Jesus is, in part, the human face of god (when on earth) In heaven he has a differnt form.Hhe is known as the word or creative aspect of god. God the father is a sapient being who can manifest in both energy and material forms at will. To me an anlogy is like this. Jesus is my body. God is my mind/consciousness will and spirit, and the holy spirit is my energy system/ force, and that which allows me to act. In the case of god, as in our own case, all these things... [More]
Comment icon #39 Posted by Copen 11 years ago
The image is supposedly of Jesus, not God. Jesus is God! The image is supposedly of Jesus, not God. Jesus is God. The only image we are to see of God is man who is God Triune image. Man has a mind, a heart, and a flesh body. They are united as one, yet they are individually separate and perform different functions. They are each made up of each other. Flesh is in the heart and flesh is in the mind. You can't take the flesh out of the heart or out of the mind. They are in each other united as one. Thus is the Holy Spirit replicated in the power of the mind and emotions, the Father in the heart,... [More]
Comment icon #40 Posted by docyabut2 11 years ago
Seems like good ol fashioned apologist gobblty-gook to me. the author presents his argument well and that muc deserves merit but the fact is that Jesus was discussed endlessly by the Sanhedrin or local Rabbinical order or Jerusalem quite extensively which as you may know were very meticulous and recorded rulings and associated findings tirelessly much like any court of law would today. Nothing from around the time of Jesus, or otherwise mentions a Jesus/Yeshuah for any reason within a reasonable time frame. Someone else made the argument that because he had man y followers to begin with and wi... [More]
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